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September 17, 1940.
WAR-IN
A THOUSAND MILES
MUD
OF
By RONALD MATTHEWS
On The Abyssinian Frontier.
BLUE in the distance, across the green tree-dotted plain that changes to a crumb- ling red on the horizon, rise the surly mountains of Abyssinia.
And here, front the headquarters of a British unit in the "front line" I am able to give the first eye-witness account of the siege operations which are being conducted to-day against Italy's East African Empire.
At present, the campaign must remain al the tempo of patient blockade enlivened by an occasional raid.
For almost the entire thousand miles of the Sudan-Abyssinian border have been turned into the likeness of a football ground after a heavy match on a pouring day,
The regular seasonal rains began three weeks ago, and though they are not continuous they are so persistent that large-scale operations requiring any kind of transport would be the wildest gamble till mid-September,
As evening approaches, the sky becomes overcast with heavy slate-grey clouds like an English summer, and the eastward horizon to- wards Abyssinin, which gives us our weather, is one constant flicker of lighting.
RUNNING COMMENTARY
DAE WAY FROM THE BRITISH FLEET
You run to stoppa da fight,
Full speed with alla da might.? Da English give chase But you winna da race;
Da Victry she's ours, alla right /
Mussolini has congratulated the Italian Navy on its “magnificent
When it comes--and it has come every other day this week-- the downpour is forrential and the earth turns to a clogging mud which is im- passable not only for cars but even for camels.
So a force which ventured on The British Агну a big advance would almost cer
native Arnble which
the 12
victory over the British Flect."
tainly sooner or later find itself in france almost throughout the before the rains with twa brigades. AN AIRMAN'S
them $11 That Was the position when the Italiana Baunched a dawn altock Junt
Included cavalry and
Sudia and their flashing smiles pre- The troops
bogged and cut off.
14 very different atmosphere tanks and-lar more The headquarters from which from that at the Italian garrison a were supported by aircraft.
coloured
I am writing is located in a cir- seure ve se miles away, where the cular native hut of the type Italium address their own known as a takul-beehive vil troops only through an interpreter Inges of takuls are scattered all
Warthog With Beans over the landscape.
Its walls as well as the roof
important-m
LETTER
There is 1 doubt amung Bri- toms that though the Italiana. mit- numbered the defenders by nearer 20 than 10 to one, they would bave
Flying Officer Anthony Gray been repelled if Kassala had been of Worcester, hero of the acriņi It is not so hard to learn what is suffelent strategic
Sudah bold,
are made of straw, and the coni- frontier town captured by un Baltou
guing on at Kassula, the
cal thatch rises to a topknot like "untz" attack. the hat Garbo were in "Ninot- ehka."
The source of information trickle of escaped Prisoners, Plump white hens wander over and
military, who have the earth floor between the legs streaming back to the British of trestle tables, on which lie a since the tallan capture
From their arcount it
importance
10
All the might of tanks, machine-
Abdul's Sleepy Guard
battle of July 4, when his flight
I estimated that in German ar Takis against Great Britain and Bri- tish shippalak the enemy is loading alteraft at a faster rate than he can This rate of destruc- construet them tion has been maintained for some dys past and yesterday's figure of 180 machines is the highest ever re- curved Great Britain is retaining
The officer in charge decided that of five Gladiators fought and her supremacy in serial fighting in
evacuation was the best course. shot down nine Italian Fiat Cr. accounting for three to four Gerikan machines for
And here comes the amazing part 129 in the Western Desert, has kses every one German bombing of land targets is
vival of the story, which would seen to licen show that with a few more successes been killed in a flying accident. lines like this the Italians would be played effective is claimed in Berlin, fus neutral newspapermen,
out. Though they dropped hundreds He was returning from the front wiin
visiting thuse ports and
seems of
of bomba
in the course of the day, line with his fight in thick cloud. He where fo
forbiela tells of de- ; typewriter, a couple of rolls of evident that the Italians are extre- there was not a single air casualty left the formation and dived through elmating blows
maps, and half a duzen card- inely anxious about a British coun- am
among the defender.
the cloud to discover their position, beard Bles of telegrams, orders terattack. to support this German form of propaganda, Most of the damage and dispatches.
They reduced the gurrison strik- guns, mvalry and artillery claimed Unfortunately the mist stretched inflicted is on private properly und
Round the tall lumps after ingly after the rapture, one officer only five Sudanese casualties, though right down to the ground level, and the casualties are chiedly among helps-
nightfall gathers a hum of in- xplaining somewhat mysteriously a very conservative estimale puls Flying Officer Worcester was unable less vlas Indeed, Germany's air war is directed against non-combat- sects that drop in your lap or that the troups were being recalled the Italian losses at 500,
"lo repel a Brilish attack on Addis ants, as the raids on central London plop on your shoulder like con- Ababa”—a phrase which FuggeBla bear testimony
tinuous shrapnel fire and which thai trouble may be spreading to the squat brown toads hunt over the very heurt of Abyssinia. They have floor with darting tongues,
now inereused the gurrison heavily not that of Abdul, a coat-black Sud pleal Royal Air Force pilot whose It has reached 10,000,
anese from The Nuba mountains, spirit lives on in a letter written to "Pinprick" Pushes
One prisoner who
escaped from whom I saw a few hours after his mother on his return from his Russula noticed the Britons tearing escape from capture following the Drat and highly successful aerial Outside, slim mimosa trees of up track to prevent a surprise. neams, which resemble the exclaimed; "Why, the tallas are Of the many gestures which
as in doing exactly the same 011
The following is an extract from African ash, are dotted
their be punctuated his smiling tale, the
inosi frequent was A Nap of the his letter: parkland.
Then we are getting our rations fingers--each snap signifying an Their upper branches are regularly from the rear, though the enemy killed. flutter with long-legged storks officers preter, to shoot their manis, And he continued snapping his you what was happening between 6 or prosperous cgrets, their Lunch to-day was an admirable war- fingers with machine-gun rapidity and 6.15 this evening as it has about for pretty nearly a quarter an other great days in my life. For to- plumage as unbelievably white thug with beans.
I hour.
day, one of the greatest ambitions as packets on a Christmas tree.
have not yet ventured to try the cro- Abdul escaped when an askari was of my life has been fulfilled. Beneath this busy shade are codile which the second-in-command detailed to take him to the river for camouflaged by daytime the bagged yesterday in a nearby river, a wash.
"I was involved in an air battle He fell asleep doing so, forces which are carrying out a Since being killed this crocodile and Abdul made his way through the with the enemy for the first timer lines by the now popular trick of 11 seems that Providence went out of "pinprick" campaign against the has lengthened from 17 to 25 rect
doffing all his garments but his His way to fill my cup of joy, for it Italian garrison of Kassala down
Italians Short Of Food
loincloth and posing as a local cul- was the type of engagement which the now cut railway to Port
overy fighter pilot dreams about and tivator going out to the fields. Sudan,
On the other hund the Italians, as
longs for but seldom gets in these He was not the only newcomer at days fighter v. fighter in a dog-fight as they entered Kassala, fell British headquarters. ravenously on every local store of
The claims of the Germans grow more exaggerated as their raids cun- Unue, and in this respect they are deluding their own people, but no
Their one else
Gioverament 13 AXT the position of being responsible 10 u une, and leuet of all to truth us ta record shows [1 le quite different with the British Government. That
| budy is responsible to Parliament.
it made exaggerated claims us a re- sult of aerial battles the malter would be investigated on the floor of the House of Commons and the truth
to
would be brought light. That Parlament does bal question the oficial communiques of its Govern- ment la proof positive of the fact that they are true. Moreover, the ou- thorities responsible de not take un- supported evidence of the destruc- tive proof. That is why there is a constant revision upwards of the losses inflicted us more and mbre evidence comes to hand.
fence Force.
are
aide
BOOK
For dinner there was a gazelle,
food.
clean
This conservative estimate
He battle.
was
Another was
to pull the aircraft out of the dive In time and he crushed. Thus ended. the short but glorious war career of A
combat.
"I wonder if your psychic gift told
Who are the men who
little less dusky deserter from the spread all over the sky-each man for waging this war? Well-brown grain or any other food. They are Italian lines, who has displayed such
Himself. and aquiline, or black and broad- now living on the meat of cimbras detestation of his former masters
"About 6 o'clock this evening I led black and white storks, which even that he has now been recruited into five of our fighters into action agalust nosed, they are the Arab or Negro troopers of the Sudan De-natives do not regard as the Sudanesę ranks.
nine Italian fighters over their own And there must be many like him aerodrome. The whole thing only For General Farucci's troops do not venture more than a few hundred in the Kassula garrison, for he told fasted about six minutes, although it how on mobilisation the Italians seemed like halt an hour. We shot. yards outside their defences.
And rounded
up every coloured man down, the whole nine and I had the inside Abyssinia, which had to buy found in the town of Gondar, not luck to account for four of them. Our grain heavily from the Sudan before only Abyssinian but visiting Sud-chops put up a wonderful show and To-day, under a handful of British the wor, supplies are none too plen- anese, giving arms to me some of we had no losses.
tiful. officers, they are driving armoured
What Is Kassala about anyway, vehicles, manning machine guns, and the battle for it which they are working a crackling field radio. still discussing here?
Many of them did not wear a stitch of clothing before enlist ment, and few of them knew one end of a car from the other.
whom had never hold them before.
Bombs And Pamphlets
The British press believes that the threatened German blitzkrieg is near. Already, in successive waves daily, hundreds of enemy airplanes are taking part in raida. The more that participate the greater is the per centage of the losses they sustain. There is nothing that these raids are accomplishing that gives any indien- tion of paving the way for an invo- sion of Great Britain. Whatever losses are being inflicted on the Royal Navy are insignificant. Merchant shipping not suffering unduly. British land forces remain intact,
"Do you remember this film Daum ready to repel any attempted landing
Patrol? The atmosphere was just the by enemy forces." What Germany is They are extremely proud of their It is a settlement of a few hundred That reluctant morale is very dif- the same, and to add to the drama aiming at is the destruction of British
crash helmets, and not only wear takuls, with Government buildings, ferent from that of the Sudanese at we were sitting round our mess camp aerial power. Her attacks for some weeks past have been concentrated
them all day long, but sleep in them. a post office, Greek merchants' stores Kassala, who, when ordered to fall this evening an Italian pilot, who had British officers, hand-picked from and the homes of the few British back, exclaimed petulantly: "Fall been shot down in the morning, was on airdromes and air factories, as
officials in brick or stones-a Euro- back? Why, that is just what the brought in. The poor fellow was well
London, though with what
deathly white and had obviously. measure of success is not known. curtain of fire across the Channel and pean quarter about the size of a enemy seem to be doing!"
And they were falling back Indred resigned himself to anything. We What she has failed to demonstrate establishing what he believes is his emall English hamlet.
air supremacy, is any superiority in aerial warfare.
East of it rise the brown basalt before the concentrated Sudanese gave him a drinic, some cigarettes, will enemy
white and some food which he welfed, poor. As a fighting machine Germany's alr attempt invasion by troop transports crage of the Jebel Kassaia and the fire into which the Italian
were driving them on from chap. force has been shown to be at a dis-reinforced by parachutists. The air Jebel Moktam, two mountains which advantage in encountering the Britlett, supremacy he envisages will only thrust up isolated from the plain behind.
"I am dend tired, dirty, and un- exist in his own where numerical superiority
imagination, for like
For the moment Illan sorties are plump exclamation prevails. When fighting against odds there is nu indication that it is being thrust up so
to occasional air raids. shaven, but otherwise in great spirits. so sheerly that they have confined the Royal Air Force seems to rise to won. Any sex passage of troops never been climbed to the summit. They fly high on these, and favourite I do hope this gets to you soon, know- the height of the occasion. The best must reckon with the Royal Navy, West of it runs the bed of the marks seem to be the behivo villages ing how you wait for it all the time, which will not be deterred from its River Gash which; dry in winter, of takuls, from which the Date's as any success of mine means so task no matter what the nature of the dows in the rainy season so fiercely gallant airmen send women and chil- much to you... You know how I
have waited all my life for in the daily losses inflcted on the barrage laid down across the Channel: that it practically cuts Kassala off dren screaming into the bush,
something enemy and sustained by the defen- The Germans are heading for their from the railway and the west of the They have ralded once with par- like this, and now It has happened. ders. Even Germany's air resources
phlets which not a soul there could I can hardly believe it I am most. opportunity can only be relled upon for a certain
most tragic discovery, that is tragic Sat is why were the Gush is, un rend. once with Arabic pamphlets grateful for the luck and for them, if they believe that their time to stand losses or three machines. air bombardments are crushing the
soul of the British people. "Wo aro Urliged it was planned before the protesting - that the Italians do not that had been given was. 23- The Germans, if their propaganda rendy and waiting for Hitler, the war to evacuate Kassala as soon as wish to make war on the Sudan. Flying Officer Waretster
It was only
years of age, commissioned in. trouble should start. Is to be belleved, are working on the
past. That is their spirit of resolt the, Initial startling successes of our vincing, since somewhat, less cos January, 1888, and trained as a fighter British people have said for months
was preceded by assumption that the morale of, the British people resembles that of the which though very nations of Europe they have trampled land there is no such word as fair leaving of a tiny Sudanese garrisons badly aimed, caused the first two son, his mother being a widow well
Sudanese casualiles on this front, known by many in Hongkong. underfoot. No doubt, after laying a in the crials that she faces.
even
estimate of all in appraisal of the trend of the aerial warfare is found
for every British-airplane destroyed.
the
there.
marks-
The latter WAS
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